Just One Question | Gabor Maté: What Keeps Me from Being More Compassionate?

Hello and welcome to Just One Question from Insights at the Edge. I'm Chris Rock. And I'm Mallory Corbin. We're producers at the Sounds True Podcast Network. We work with Tammy on Insights at the Edge to bring you transformational ideas from wisdom teachers around the world. And every week on this show, we pull out some of the most inspiring, most transformational ideas from those hundreds of conversations, and we bring them to you in the form of one question and one answer. Us the name just one question. We hope you enjoy. For today's question, Mallory, I wanna bring in a voice that a lot of people listen to when it comes to trauma, and that is Doctor Gabor Mate.

Oh yeah, he's incredibly popular in the trauma space. Addiction too. Yeah, absolutely. In the realm of hunger ghosts, that's one of my favorite book titles. Yeah, Spooky. Spooky, poetic, and he he does amazing work in that space. This might not be totally related, but I do wanna share I remember one story he He shared through Sounds True where he led a group of patients on an ayahuas retreat in South America. And when he tried to go through the ceremony himself, the local healers stopped him and they were like you've got some dark stuff going on. We can't let you bring that in here. Oh, okay. He was too much for the ayahuasca healers. Yeah, right, right. Which I can see. I mean he's intense. He's gone through a lot of stuff. And he works with a lot of really kind of dark issues.

So in this episode of Insights, um, he actually Does a great job of linking People's lack of compassion. To their own pain. And he's saying that some of the most sensitive people he's known or met

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